Citations:jew

English citations of jew

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• 1840, Daniel Webster, “A Uniform System of Bankruptcy”, in The Works of Daniel Webster, 11th edition, volume 5, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., published 1858, →OCLC, page 31:

  They paid exorbitant interest for money; they suffered themselves to be jewed in every dark alley in the city; they sacrificed every thing to maintain their credit, and in the end, when every thing else was gone, credit went also.

• 1847, Washington Irving, “[Letter to Mrs. Pierre M. Irving]”, in Pierre Munroe Irving, editor, The Life and Letters of Washington Irving, volume 4, New York: G.P. Putnam, published 1866, →OCLC, page 19:

  […] but I want to have a little talk with him about stocks, and railroads, and some mode of screwing and jewing the world out of more interest than one's money is entitled to.

• 1859, Simeon Nash, Morality and the State, Columbus: Follett, Foster & Co., →OCLC, page 143:

  So, too, one is equally wrong in jewing a merchant to sell a thing for less than a fair compensation over cost for his time and capital employed in procuring and selling it.

• 1867, Samuel Robinson, A Sailor Boy's Experience Aboard a Slave Ship, Hamilton: Wm. Naismith, →OCLC, page 135:

  I handed two shillings for the purpose of payment, when, to my great mortification, I was told, in not very complimentary terms, that one of them was a counterfeit. The rascal of a coachman had jewed me in the dark.

• 1870, Alfred Holbrook, School Management, Lebanon: Josiah Holbrook, →OCLC, pages 274–275:

  Why, those very directors, who by taking advantage of your necessities, jewed you out of half your wages, are boasting around the district that they have hired a cheap teacher, and you will have to enter that school under the disability of poverty and dependence […]

• 1875, Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, Boston: Wright & Potter, →OCLC, page 72:

  Never buy a South Carolina phosphate like that, and be jewed into paying forty dollars a ton, with any expectation that you are ever to get your money back so that you can know it.

• 1880, Luther Tracy Townsend, Fate of Republics, Estes & Lauriat, →OCLC, page 107:

  The authorities are seeking to prevent every kind of extortion, which in other countries is freely practised upon travellers. They have discussed the subject of beggary with great care, and publicly advise all tourists not to give to professional beggars, as the best means of making them abandon their profession. One may therefore travel in most parts of Switzerland, with no suspicion of being jewed.

• 1894, Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Augusta: Burleigh & Flynt, →OCLC, page 34:

  Had there been no oversight, and the manufacturers had had every opportunity to place their goods upon the market, we should have been jewed year after year, year after year. As fast as we found out one fraud, something under another name, and from another firm would have been hoisted upon us.

• 1896, Comments of the County Commissioners, Dedham: Transcript Steam Job Print, →OCLC, page 70:

  Mr. Morrell and the County Commissioners are not to be blamed if they have been jewed by one firm in the price of a class of goods which they are not acquainted with.

• 1937 February 26, “Statment of Smith W. Purdum, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, Washington, D.C.”, in Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Commiittee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Sessiion, on H.R. 4720:

  Mr. PURDUM. No, sir. Senator, we don't try to jew them down. We try to make a fair and reasonable contract, as a result of competitive bidding, and to live within the limit of the appropriation given to us by Congress.

• 2001 September 24, Donald R. Bernard, John Goldsmith, Bullion, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 162:

  'You're jewing me on the price, right? Well get this and get it good, I don't get jewed. Not by anybody.' Dan, who had lost the toss and taken the call, wished John a Merry Christmas. The advent of Christmas compounded their problems.

• 2004 June 20, Victor, “The Ten Truths: On Jewish Lawyers & the Jewing of Law”, in alt.california‎^[1] (Usenet):

  Nevertheless, decisions used to be rendered based on long-honored
  White traditions or "precedent," and supported by reason and logic. In
  today's jewed system, by contrast, one is more apt to read a legal
  opinion which cites U.N. resolutions or jewish sociologists than
  Black's Law Dictionary.

• 2015 May 12, Herbert Burkholz, Writer-in-Residence, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

  “By God, you're jewing me, that's what it is.” “Take it or leave it.” “Oh, I take it, but you're jewing me.” Max made a sweeping motion with his hand and the two women came down the bar to join them. When he told Helga that everything […]

• 2017 March 28, Stephen King, Different Seasons: Four Novellas, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 47:

  “And listen to me well: if you're jewing me somehow, you're gonna find yourself chasing your own head around Shower C before the week's out.” “Yes, I understand that,” Andy said softly. And he did [...]